When I was growing up as a young lesbian in the '50s, I looked in vain for books about my people. I did find some paperbacks with lurid covers in the local bus station, but they ended with the gay character's committing suicide, dying in a car crash, being sent to a mental hospital, or 'turning' heterosexual. Nancy Garden
Before, I wanted to say: "I found love! " But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him.
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C. Joybell C.
Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.
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Brian Tracy
So I am not a broken heart. I am not the weight I lost or miles or ran and I am not the way I slept on my doorstep under the bare sky in smell of tears and whiskey because my apartment was empty and...
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Charlotte Eriksson
Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also...
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C. Joybell C.
When I was little and running on the race track at school, I always stopped and waited for all the other kids so we could run together even though I knew (and everybody else knew) that I could run much faster than all of them!...
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C. Joybell C.
More Quotes By Nancy Garden
Equality and prosperity shouldn't be seen as enemies of each other, but as partners. One reinforces the other.
I am a social democrat - I believe in pursuing greater equality and tackling social justice - but... you can't do that unless you have got a strong economy, unless you have got a vibrant business base earning the wealth that makes that possible.
True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.
My pledge to you is that the SNP will put women and gender equality right at the heart of the Westminster agenda.
Scotland is not a region of the U.K.; Scotland is a nation, and if we cannot protect our interests within a U.K. that is going to be changing fundamentally, then that right of Scotland to consider the options of independence has to be there.